Taipei, April 5 (CNA) Classical music lovers will have an opportunity to enjoy a concert by three Grammy Award winners in May, organizers announced Wednesday.
Pianist Yefim Bronfman, violinist Gil Shaham and cellist Truls Mork will perform two concerts. The first, slated for May 24, will be at Chi-teh Hall in the southern city of Kaohsiung, while the second will be at the National Concert Hall in Taipei May 25.
The opportunity to see the three international musicians perform together is rare, said an official from Management of New Arts (MNA), which is organizing the event.
American violinist Gil Shaham, who is of Israeli descent, has performed with well-known orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic. He won the prestigious Avery Fisher career grant and is a 1998 Grammy winner.
Russian-American pianist Yefim Bronfman, who first visited Taiwan in 1997, is a 1996 Grammy Award winner in classical music performance, while Trulas Mork, from Norway, is regarded as one of the best cellists under the age of 50. He won a Grammy in 2002.
They will perform works by Tchaikovsky and Schubert in the concerts.